Quality standards of CTC black teas as influenced by sources of potassium fertiliser

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 799-803

  Venkatesan, Selvaraj ^a   Senthurpandian, Velu Kalaipandian ^a   Murugesan, Subramanian ^a   Maibuam, Wolfgang ^b   Ganapathy, Muthukumar N K ^a  

^a UPASI Tea Research Foundation   (India)

^b c/o K+S KALI GmbH ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Flavour; PFA parameters; Potassium fertiliser; Theaflavins; Thearubigins

Indexed keywords

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 33645450336     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2418     Document Type: Article

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